Amazingly crappily when I think about it everything was DI'd into his laptop and logic. I'm the drummer and for all the drums I just DI'd my Roland Octapad and then the guitarist just spent a while trying to edit it together.

that actually happened because I recorded my fender acoustically into the mac, and added reverb/distortion effects, which created that weird echo. But yeah, i'm quite interested in having some droney synths under it too, basically I went to see Mount Eerie last week and thought "well if he can do it"

I was def. pretty influenced by soundtracks when making it, so it's cool to hear stuff like that. There's some Nobuo Uematsu that's just a sort of atmospheric fixture within my brain, too, so that's doubly complimentary.

Guess the theme. They won't all be this long, but at least one of them will. This didn't come out exactly like I was intending so I'll probably do it again and do four or five tracks together on some kind of album. maybe, if I can get my shit together.

with proper verses, choruses, bridges and all that. Reminds me of Villagers a bit, in a good way - how all the picking keeps rolling on through the crescendos. I like the spooky keyboard (?) sounds in Ohdemo.

The intro to Dream of Nothing is pretty badass, shame that grittier tone drops out.

You'll all be excited to hear that the Birds of Britain stuff I am doing is coming along nicely. Probably won't post more of that until the whole album-thing is done, then put it all up together on soundcloud & bandcamp.

My knowledge is super, super minimal for what it's worth. This is basically just a case of writing some guitar lines, looping them, and then experimenting with different effects / chains of pedals until I get something I like. Same with any synth parts I include.

Recording-wise, I literally know nothing. I just use garage band and point my ipad at my amp, but I think it sort of works for this as it ends up sounding slightly degraded and the general ambience of the room sounds vaguely like tape hiss.

the Arturia softsynth version of the Arp 2600 (since i'll never get my hands on the real thing any time soon), really starting to understand synthesis. The original owners manual is pretty charming and informative, worth a read even if you don't need to use this specific synth since it explains a lot in general. http://guitarfool.com/ARP2600/Arp%202600%20Owners%20Manual.pdf

Anyway yeah i recorded hours of messing about onto poundland cassettes via a tube overdrive :D and saved a load of patches as "dagkjresgkjarhkah" etc and forgotten what they do. Somewhere along the line I accidentally made this comparatively more 'musical' little thing: https://soundcloud.com/cementimental/tx-dx ^__^